Show COURT REPORTERS FEES HcGnrrins Position on the Proposed Cnt Is Quite Natural Mr Frank McGurrin late official reporter re-porter in the Third district court is quoted in the News last night as being be-ing strongly opposed to a reduction in the fees of the court reporters That is quite natural Mr McGurrin held the position himself for a number of years and i is said on good authority that his revenues from the position at times ran over 10000 a year The misguided mis-guided gentleman has an idea too that there will be a Republican administration tion some day and under it he expects ex-pects to get his old position back and of course he doesnt want any of the fat fried out of it The fact remains however that the fees of reporters are generally considered consid-ered too high Yesterday The Herald had something to say about fees in the criminal business and what is true of that is equally true of the civil branch A great many lawyers have their own short hand men and they are perfectly able to report the ordinary civil cases I Th Malm is made that if the attor cp neys were allowed to use their stenographers steno-graphers in certain cases itwould save the litigants considerable expense and that in those cases where the prevail jug party is poor it works a great hardship upon him to pay the fees for reporting in order to have the judgment i judg-ment obtained entered and in some instances I in-stances judgments have been ted up for A long time simply because the successful party could not advance these costs There is little doubt but that the consideration of the fee bill by the Legislature will result in an effort to cut down the fees of official I reporters They are now allowed not to exceed 10 per day and 15 cents per folio and always get the maximum These prices would be exorbitant in the best of times but under prevailing conditions con-ditions a stronger term might be used I is not at all unlikely that the pay will be trimmed down to 5 per day wi I and 8 cents per folio |